Isaiah 9:14-16

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¹⁴So the Lord cuts off ^(A)head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush ^(B)in a single day.
¹⁵The head is ^(C)the elder and esteemed man,
And the prophet who teaches ^(D)falsehood is the tail.
¹⁶^(E)For those who guide this people are leading them astray;
And those who are guided by them are ^[a]confused.

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Isaiah 9:16 Or swallowed up

Jeremiah 52:24-27

New American Standard Bible

²⁴Then the captain of the guard took ^(A)Seraiah the chief priest and ^(B)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three ^[a]^(C)officers of the temple. ²⁵He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the warriors, seven ^[b]of the ^(D)king’s advisers who were found in the city, the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found inside the city. ²⁶Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and ^(E)brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷Then the king of Babylon ^(F)struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was ^(G)led into exile from its land.